February 2012
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“Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four...”
– Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
December 2011
1 post
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“Once, when there were rumours of new burnings, someone scrawled in white paint...”
– V.S. Naipaul, “One Out of Many”
October 2011
2 posts
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“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer....”
– Charlotte’s Web by EB White
May 2011
1 post
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“[Aureliano] had already understood that he would never leave … races condemned...”
– 100 Years of Solitude
November 2010
7 posts
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“Harry nodded. He somehow could not find words to tell them what it meant to him,...”
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
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“Two old men in the meanwhile enjoyed pensions in great prosperity and peace, and...”
– The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
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“For now she knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could...”
– Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
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“But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted...”
– The House at Pooh Corner by AA Milne
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“I never saw any of them again—except the cops. No way has yet been invented to...”
– The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
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“And, grinning broadly at the look of horror on Uncle Vernon’s face, Harry...”
– Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
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“His hand closed around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of the final meeting with...”
– Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
September 2010
2 posts
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“C’est la que nous avons eu de meilleur! dit Deslauriers.”
(This is where we had...”
– Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
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“Florentina Ariza had kept his answer for fifty-three years, seven months, and...”
– Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
August 2010
1 post
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“O, peace, Paulina!
Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent,
As I by thine a...”
– (Leontes) A Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
July 2010
6 posts
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“I was grateful to him for calling me back and reminding me where I belonged, in...”
– Goldengrove by Francine Prose
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“’Meet Mrs. Bundren,” he says.”
– As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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“Everything we need that is not food or love is here in the tabloid racks. The...”
– White Noise by Don DeLillo
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“Columbus too thought he was a flop, probably, when they sent him back in chains....”
– The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
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“And however superciliously the highbrows carp, we the public in our heart of...”
– The Razor’s Edge by W Somerset Maugham
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“He wrote: So this is what everybody’s always talking about! Diablo! If only I’d...”
– The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
June 2010
12 posts
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“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to...”
– L’Etranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus
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“Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops.”
– The Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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“The jets roared at full power as the aircraft lumbered down the runway and...”
– The Brave Little Soldier by Nolan Kenny
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“And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the...”
– The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
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“To us - and snails, God bless them!”
– The Book and Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
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“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been...”
– The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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“Who am I? What am I? Tell me.”
– Early Grrrl by Marge Piercy
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“I am haunted by humans.”
– The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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“It was the saddest and most cruel April of the five. It had held out an almost...”
– Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
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“Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton....”
– The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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“O, let us pay the time but needful woe,
Since it hath been beforehand with our...”
– (Bastard) King John by William Shakespeare
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“Let them not live to taste this land’s increase
That would with treason...”
– (Richmond) Richard III by William Shakespeare
May 2010
16 posts
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"Moon of the Caribbean" by Eugene O'Neill
THE DONKEYMAN—More memories? (Smitty does not answer him. The ship's bell tolls four bells. The Donkeyman knocks out his pipe.) I think I'll turn in.You can't hear it in the fo'c's'le—the music, I mean—an' there'll likely be more drink in there, too. Good night.
SMITTY—Good night, Donk.
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“So…
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen...”
– Oh the Place You’ll Go by Dr Seuss
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“I got the Devils out your house! I got the Devils out your house!”
– (Felicia) A Devil in God’s House by L’Tisha A. Vaughn
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“Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father’s voice:...”
– Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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“Mama’s gone. I’m your Mama now.”
– (First Plain Clothes Man) The Web by Eugene O’Neill
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"Vera, or the Nihilists" by Oscar Wilde
CZAR: [holding dagger out of her reach] Death is in my heart too; we shall die together!
VERA: Oh, love! love! love! be merciful to me! The wolves are hot upon you!--you must live for liberty, for Russia, for me! Oh, you do not love me! You offered me an empire once! Give me this dagger, now! Oh, you are cruel! My life for yours! What does it matter?
CZAR: The bitterness of death is past for me
VERA: Oh, they are breaking in below! See! The bloody man behind you!h! [VERA snatches dagger and flings it out of window.]
CONSPIRATORS: Long live the people!
CZAR: What have you done?
VERA: I have saved Russia!
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“How could I not? It is my devoted duty as wife and sister. I will see you whole....”
– (Issy) Pig by Paul Gisby
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“Twelve-by-twelve pen’s your kingdom and you don’t know shit about...”
– (Darrell) The Distance From Here by Neil LaBute
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“Stay alive for as long as you have to stay lost.”
– This Beautiful City by The Civillians
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“There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.”
– (Dr Martin Dysart) Equus by Peter Shaffer
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“Now my charms are all o’erthrown,
And what strength I have’s mine...”
– (Prospero) The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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“The severed, deep-frozen head of Adolf Hitler.”
– The Day After Tomorrow by Allan Folsom
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“All the compliment is to the earwigs, you see, mother!” “Dear Job...”
– Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
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“He no longer puts rum in his tea, he picks at his food, says barely two words...”
– The Jinx by Theophile Gautier
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“So, if I were given long enough to accomplish my work, I should not fail, even...”
– In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
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“You killed it, you clean it.”
– Deathbeast by David Gerrold
April 2010
39 posts
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“And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”
– A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens